The document outlines a Lenten program that includes daily exercises, sacrifices, and scripture reading aimed at drawing closer to God. It discusses the human body and mind as wonders created by God. It also explains the practice of Lectio Divina for reading scripture, involving reading, meditation, prayer, and contemplation, and cautions that insights must be validated through the Church.
Achieve a greater understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus during this glorious season of the year with 7 daily readings from NIV Scripture passages that examine the Passion narratives in the Gospels.
Look at the spiritual discipline of Bible intake.
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Achieve a greater understanding of the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus during this glorious season of the year with 7 daily readings from NIV Scripture passages that examine the Passion narratives in the Gospels.
Look at the spiritual discipline of Bible intake.
Feel free to check out my Youtube channel ("Bible A to Z"):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCksmizy3de-HTruLFkHDCMA
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/BibleAtoZ1
Facebook:
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Slides from a day-long retreat on Persistent Prayer for Benedictine Oblates at St Scholastica Monastery, Duluth MN. Include clickable links to video of Fr William Meninger from Souljourners.
Let the Peace of Christ Rule Colossians 3:15-17Rick Peterson
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Meditating on the Lord can be one of the easiest yet at the same time most difficult activities we can do to draw closer to God and grow spiritually. (James 4:8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you.)
The National Association Catholic Family Life Ministers Professional Development Conference on “The Spirituality of the Family Life Minister" with Sr. Rose Marie Adams, I.H.M.
The largest growing demographic today is those who are “spiritual but not religious.” Albert Einstein’s cosmic religion of the future was as follows: “This religion is transcendent and avoids dogma. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it is based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity.”
Might sharing this Cosmic Religion of the Future be a way of interesting the “spiritual but not religious” in joining our Fellowship? To address this question, let us examine the conversion experience of St .Paul of Tarsus and of scientists like Dr. Francis Collins, the present head of our National Institute of Health.
The PBHP DYC ~ Reflections on The Dhamma (English).pptxOH TEIK BIN
A PowerPoint Presentation based on the Dhamma Reflections for the PBHP DYC for the years 1993 – 2012. To motivate and inspire DYC members to keep on practicing the Dhamma and to do the meritorious deed of Dhammaduta work.
The texts are in English.
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Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way.pptxCelso Napoleon
Lesson 9 - Resisting Temptation Along the Way
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Adult Bible Lessons 2nd quarter 2024 CPAD
MAGAZINE: THE CAREER THAT IS PROPOSED TO US: The Path of Salvation, Holiness and Perseverance to Reach Heaven
Commentator: Pastor Osiel Gomes
Presentation: Missionary Celso Napoleon
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Homily: The Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Sunday 2024.docxJames Knipper
Countless volumes have been written trying to explain the mystery of three persons in one true God, leaving us to resort to metaphors such as the three-leaf clover to try to comprehend the Divinity. Many of us grew up with the quintessential pyramidal Trinity structure of God at the top and Son and Spirit in opposite corners. But what if we looked at this ‘mystery’ from a different perspective? What if we shifted our language of God as a being towards the concept of God as love? What if we focused more on the relationship within the Trinity versus the persons of the Trinity? What if stopped looking at God as a noun…and instead considered God as a verb? Check it out…
The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile.
What Should be the Christian View of Anime?Joe Muraguri
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each chakra is studied in greater detail, several steps have been included to
strengthen your personal intention to open each chakra more fully. These are designed
to draw forth the highest benefit for your spiritual growth.
In Jude 17-23 Jude shifts from piling up examples of false teachers from the Old Testament to a series of practical exhortations that flow from apostolic instruction. He preserves for us what may well have been part of the apostolic catechism for the first generation of Christ-followers. In these instructions Jude exhorts the believer to deal with 3 different groups of people: scoffers who are "devoid of the Spirit", believers who have come under the influence of scoffers and believers who are so entrenched in false teaching that they need rescue and pose some real spiritual risk for the rescuer. In all of this Jude emphasizes Jesus' call to rescue straying sheep, leaving the 99 safely behind and pursuing the 1.
The Good News, newsletter for June 2024 is hereNoHo FUMC
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3. Our Lenten journey to “become a man after God‟s
own heart” is now more than half over!
4. The Daily Lenten Program
1. Begin the day with a consecration of the
day and ourselves to God.
2. Daily exercise to help us overcome the
obstacles in the spiritual life and
encounter God.
3. Daily sacrifice designed to coordinate
with the daily exercise.
4. Brief examination of conscience at the
end of the day.
5. The Weekly Lenten Program
Exercise: Ascent of Mind
Sacrifice: No Media
Covenant: Ascent of Mind
The Third Week of Lent
Toward Self
Basic
Orientation
6. Satan is constantly trying to shrink your heart. To
get you to believe that you are less than you truly
are. But the human person is truly awesome.
7. The Wonder of the Human Person
• One thousand, million, million, million, million atoms
combined into 75 trillion cells.
• One billion neurons, stretching over one million
miles, processing 38 thousand trillions bits per
second.
• 120 million rod cells and 6 million cone cells sending
information down 1.2 million nerve fibers.
• 20,000 hair cells sensitive to one billionth of an
atmospheric pressure.
• 100,000 heart beats, pumping 2000 gallons of blood
through 60,000 miles of blood vessels every day.
• 700 million alveoli containing 300,000 million
capillaries, breathing 29,000 times per day.
8. The first swallow from the cup of natural sciences
makes atheists, but at the bottom of the cup God
is waiting.
Werner Heisenberg
Nobel Laureate, Physics, 1932
The Challenge for Modern Man
9. Dr. Gerald Schroeder
• Bachelor, Master and Doctorate in Nuclear
Physics from M.I.T.
• Present at the detonation of 6 atomic bombs.
• Author of over 60 professional articles.
• Patent holder for the first real time monitor of
airborne alpha, beta, gamma emitters.
• “I am called to be a philosopher of nuclear
physics!”
• Author of Genesis and the Big Bang, The
Science of God, The Hidden Face of God and
God According to God.
10. The Science of God
• Considers Biblical text for the creation of the
world found in Genesis Chapter 1.
• Considers ancient Jewish commentary on the
creation of the world.
• Considers science of modern cosmology.
• Uses Einstein‟s Theory of Relativity to reconcile.
• “Both stories are true. It just depends on the
time-spaces coordinates one uses for a
reference point. Genesis is God standing at the
Big Bang looking forward. Cosmology is man
standing on earth looking backwards.”
11. Creation: Genesis and Cosmology
Day 7: “God rested.” Present Life as we know it.
Biblical Account
Day 1: “Let there be light.” 15.75 – 7.75 Big Bang, Light, Galaxies form.
Day 2: “Let there be a firmament.” 7.75 – 3.75 Milky Way Galaxy and Sun form.
Day 3: “Let dry land appear.” 3.75 – 1.75 Formation of Water, Bacteria, Algae
Day 4: “Let there be lights in heaven.” 1.75 – 0.75 Photosynthesis, Transparent Atmosphere.
Day 5: “Let water have life/birds.” 0.75 – 0.25 Cambrian explosion of life, winged insects.
Day 6: “Let land have life/humanity.” 0.25 – Now Land animals, extinction, humans.
Source: Schroeder, Gerald L, “The Science of God – The Convergence of Science and Biblical
Wisdom,” The Free Press, 1997, p. 67.
TimeBillions of years BP Modern Cosmology
12. Your mind has the ability to soar above yourself to
touch God. He has given you the perfect means:
the Bible.
13. The Lamp to Enlighten our Minds
• “Thy word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my
path” (Psalm 119:105).
• “Let [the faithful] remember, however, that prayer
should accompany the reading of Sacred
Scripture, so that a dialogue takes place between
God and man. For „we speak to him when we
pray; we listen to him when we read the divine
oracles‟” (Catechism #2653).
• There are four elements to Lectio Divina:
Reading, Meditation, Prayer and Contemplation.
14. Lectio or Reading
• Place the Word of God on your lips.
• Gently read a passage from the Bible.
• When a thought, word or line strikes
you, stop and dwell on that
text, repeating it slowly over and over.
• When the passage has “dried up,”
move on to the next passage.
15. Meditatio or Meditation
• Dwelling at leisure on a morsel of text.
• Personalize passage: “What is God
saying to ME through the passage?”
• Do not work hard to actively try to
“crack” the text.
• Listen so that the text might speak.
• Let God speak through the text.
16. Oratio or Prayer
• The Word moves from the lips to the
heart.
• Desire for the text to be “opened up.”
• “Lord, that I might see!”
• It is personalized.
• It is ultimately desire for communion
with God.
17. Contemplatio or Contemplation
• God comes to the soul.
• The soul experiences God‟s love being
poured into it.
• This is God‟s initiative to be received
by the soul as “gift.”
• The soul is passive and receives or
“lingers” as long as God‟s presence is
experienced.
18. A Word of Caution
• Our fallen nature is still active.
• We are capable of projecting our own desires into the
Scriptures.
• We must read Scripture with the mind of the Church.
• There is only “one voice” of God.
• What we “hear” from God through the Scriptures must be
in harmony with the “voice of God” speaking through the
Church on teachings of faith and morals.
19. God will speak to you personally through the
Scriptures. It might just change your life!
20. St. Augustine
354: Born Nov. 13th in North Africa.
Youth: Receives Christian education.
370: Goes to Carthage to further education.
372: Has an illegitimate son.
373: Embraces the heresy Manichaeism.
383: Goes to Rome and then Milan.
386: Is converted in garden.
387: Baptized by St. Ambrose in Milan.
391: Ordained a priest.
396: Ordained bishop of Hippo in Africa.
430: Dies on August 28th.
21. “So for the space of nine years (from my
nineteenth to my twenty-eighth year) I lived a life
in which I was seduced and seducing, deceived
and deceiving, the prey of various desires. My
public life was that of a teacher of what are called
the „liberal arts.‟ In private I went under cover of a
false kind of religion. I was arrogant in the one
sphere, superstitious in the other, and vain and
empty from all points of view” (Confessions, Book
IV, Chapter 1).
The Wanderings of St. Augustine
22. “A huge storm rose up within me … Suddenly, a
voice reaches my ears from a nearby house … „Take
it and read it‟ … I snatched up the book, opened
it, and read in silence the passage upon which my
eyes first fell: „Not in rioting and drunkenness, not in
chambering and wantonness, not is strife and
envying; but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
make not provision for the flesh in concupiscence.‟ I
had no wish to read further; there was no need to”
(Confessions, Book VIII, Chapter 12).
The Conversion of St. Augustine
23. • “O Lord, you have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless
until they rest in thee” (Confessions, Book 1, Chapter 1).
• “Late have I loved thee, beauty ever ancient, ever new, late have I
loved thee! You were within me and I was outside, and there I sought
for you and in my ugliness I plunged into the beauties that you have
made. You were with me, and I was not with you … You called, you
cried out, you shattered my deafness: you flashed, you shone, you
scattered my blindness: you breathed perfume, and I drew in my
breath and I pant for you: I tasted, and I am hungry and thirsty …
When in my whole self I shall cling to you united, I shall find no sorrow
anywhere, no labor; wholly alive will my life be all full of you”
(Confessions, Book X, Chapters 27-28).
The Heart of St. Augustine
24. “I will elevate my mind to God by spending
at least fifteen minutes each day gently
reading Scripture and allowing God to
speak to me. I will validate my insights
through my spouse and/or spiritual guide
as appropriate.”
Covenant on the Ascent of Mind to God
25. Small Group Discussion
Next Week
The Practice of the Presence of
God
Starter Questions
1. When has God personally guided your life through the
Scriptures?
2. When will you set aside 15 minutes to read Scripture each
day? Will you do so with your spouse?